1. How did the Mongols diminish Confucian ideals? The Mongols were extremely wary of Confucian ideas and distrusted my fellow scholars and
I. They even banned the Civil Service Exam! 2. Did the Mongols affect the amount of power Confucians held in government? Yes, the Mongols considered foreigners more trustworthy and encouraged trade …show more content…
After the Mongols ruthlessly killed the citizens of Balkh, they leveled all buildings and wiped out any trace of culture. They did this a second time when they revisited Balkh.
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● Chinggis Khan
○ founded the Khan regime; came into power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of northeast Asia
○ How many innocent people did you kill?
○ Idk lol
○ Well, there were 200000 in Baghdad... Thousand in Balkh So at least 200000...
● Mongol general
○ Highly trained, elite soldiers. Rank moved up due only to actual skill itself.
(Ruthless??) Could ask about tactics, and why they used them. (Might show
Mongols as strategic)
● Mongol soldier
○ Similar to generals
● Mongol woman
○ From Wikipedia: "Women herded and milked sheep, and they routinely managed the household if widowed or if their husbands were absent to perform military service, corvée labor, or caravan work. William of Rubruck reports on the full "toleration" of women in the "Mongol" (actually Tatar) armies. Mongols valued fertility over virginity, and women remained subordinate to men and were restricted to the domestic sphere. Unlike other steppe cultures such